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Liz Mullen
Staff writer Liz Mullen covers labor, agents and horse racing.
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NBPA’s Stackhouse: Search for leader in full swing05 / 20 / 13National Basketball Players Association officials met with NHL Players’ Association Executive Director Don Fehr and MLB Players Association Executive Director Michael Weiner last month as part of their effort to find a new head for the players union. “The process has started, and for ... Tags: Labor and Agents |
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TV talent: Off the field, on the air
Michael Strahan seemed to fit right in with longtime Fox NFL analysts Howie Long, Terry Bradshaw and Jimmy Johnson when he began his broadcast career straight out of retirement following a Super Bowl win in 2008. But for the first few weeks of his new job, the seven-time Pro Bowler was dying inside. ...
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Uihlei keeps endorsement in family?
It doesn’t quite have the “Of course!” feel of this month’s news of PBR sponsoring the Pro Bull Riders — but it’s close. Titleist officials are in talks with the agent for golfer Peter Uihlein, son of the CEO for the brand’s parent company, Acushnet, and ...
Boot camp aids broadcast hopefuls
Every year, in what’s been called the “four days of hell” known as NFL Broadcast Boot Camp, the league has a session it calls “American Idol” in which players in the camp audition for real network executives by interviewing other players. It is one of the toughest as ...
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Agent searches move to campus
Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Robert Griffin III was set to interview representatives of five sports agencies this past weekend — with the meetings scheduled to be held on the Baylor University campus and with athletic department compliance representatives on hand, part of a growing trend ...
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Pegula moves into sports agent business
When billionaire oil and gas entrepreneur Terry Pegula bought the Buffalo Sabres for $189 million in February, he was already in the sports agent business — a lot of people just didn’t know it. “I got into it before I became an NHL owner,” Pegula said in a telephone interv ...
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NHL, union at odds over escrow refunds
As the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association prepare to negotiate a new collective-bargaining agreement, a dispute over player escrow from last season continues to escalate, with the league and union disagreeing last week about whether the union asked the league to release millions of dollars t ...
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Sexton to help CAA’s NFL roster grow
Before NFL player agents Ben Dogra and Tom Condon agreed recently to new long-term deals to stay at CAA Sports, they engaged in talks to make their practice — which boasts more first-round NFL draft picks and more Pro Bowlers over the past five years than any other agency — even more dom ...
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Crosby back on ice and breaking new ads
Now that Sidney Crosby has returned to the ice, the Pittsburgh Penguins center will be featured in at least three new commercial spots that will air in Canada — including one for Gatorade, which recently extended its deal with the NHL star. Crosby had been out of action since January, recov ...
MLB’s new bonus rules under scrutiny
The first-year player draft has become a crucial part of building an MLB roster in recent years, but confusion now reigns over what baseball’s new labor deal, announced last week, will do to the system. Teams and agents alike were both unclear as to the full extent of restrictions coming to ...
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Agents surprised by disclaimer
A group of powerful NBA agents who for months had been pushing the leaders of the National Basketball Players Association to disband as a union was considering its options last week, including filing its own player-client lawsuit or holding a decertification election. The decision by the NBPA lea ...
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